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Call for Applications: Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media and Policy Initiative

The Mayday Fund will cover travel expenses for the training in October, and will cover the cost of receiving communications support over five months from Burness Communications.

The Mayday Fund, a New York City-based foundation dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree, and consequence of human physical pain, is interested in providing new leaders in the pain field with tools that will enable them to reach the broader public.

In 2004, Mayday established the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media and Policy Initiative, a fellowship program to train physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, basic, translational and clinical scientists, policy experts and legal scholars in the pain management community to go beyond their own professional pursuits to become leaders and advocates for change in the pain field in the United States and Canada. The Fellowship seeks those applicants who have the capacity, time and passion to become active advocates in the field, and foresee significant impact from their efforts to improve the lives of people in pain.

The deadline for applying to the 2013 program is Monday, July 1. You must submit:

1. Your completed application

2. A letter approving your participation in the program from your immediate supervisor or chairperson. The letter should include confirmation that you can devote 10 percent of your time to the Fellowship, and provide supporting background about your candidacy for the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship.

Finalists will be involved in a phone interview with members of the Mayday Fellowship Advisory Committee. The Committee will select Fellows by late August 2013. Chosen Fellows will be required to participate in a training October 20-23, 2013.

The Mayday Fellows advocate on behalf of themselves and not on behalf of The Mayday Fund.

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation and Project on Death in America  Nursing Leadership Award in Palliative Care

The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, in accordance with a grant from the Project on Death in America, selects a nurse from nominated candidates who has emerged as a leader in palliative care and whose work has improved nursing care for dying patients and their families. 

The focus of the Nursing Leadership Award in Palliative Care is to transform our society’s medical culture and give priority to education, training, and clinical service in end-of-life care issues.  By publicizing the activities and efforts of nursing leaders, and their impact on improving end-of-life care, the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation furthers the mission of Project on Death in America to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement.

The award is competitive and one winner is selected from the nomination pool, by the HPNF PDIA Nursing Leadership Award Review Committee, consisting of HPNF Board members and HPNA members. The awardee is recognized at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine/Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Annual Assembly. The award includes a $750 cash prize and travel-related expenses to attend the Annual Assembly. The award recipient is encouraged to submit an article for publication in a future issue of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

To be eligible for the award, nominees must:

· be a current HPNA Member

· work in the field of hospice and/or palliative nursing care with his/her compassionate, skilled work and end-of-life care implemented in the healthcare system

· be viewed as someone who promotes and supports improving end-of-life care

· be seen as a leader in the field of hospice and/or palliative care in his/her setting especially in the relief of pain

· promote a better understanding of the experiences of dying and bereavement

· empower caregivers to become agents of change within their own healthcare organization

· have implemented or effected one of the following:

o educational program

o training program

o research specific to hospice/palliative care

o model service delivery program

o national policy changes

o  nomination materials must be received by HPNF on or before June 1

·  The HPNF PDIA Nursing Leadership Award Review Committee takes into account adherence to submission guidelines, completeness of nomination materials and quality of responses when reviewing nominations

To apply:

·  Deadline is strictly enforced

·  Submit PDIA Nursing Leadership Award Nomination form and any required attachments to HPNF by e-mail at info@hpnf.org or by fax at 412-787-9305 on or before June 1.